Measuring Socioeconomic Inequalities with Predicted Absolute Incomes Rather Than Wealth Quintiles: A Comparative Assessment Using Child Stunting Data from National Surveys

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 550-555

  Fink, Gunther ^a   Victora, Cesar G ^b   Harttgen, Kenneth ^c   Vollmer, Sebastian ^d   Vidaletti, Luis Paulo ^b   Barros, Aluisio J D ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GLOBAL HEALTH; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHILD; GLOBAL HEALTH; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCOME; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85020729765     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.303657     Document Type: Article

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